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    Manufacturing employment and equality in South Africa

    Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies, South Africa, 2014
    In  2014, South Africa remained one of the most unequal countries in the world, an outlier by global standards in terms of both overall inequality as measured by the Gini coefficient and levels of joblessness. For proponents of industrialisation as central to long-term development, this situation raises two questions.
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    Inequality, unemployment and poverty in South Africa

    Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies, South Africa, 2008
    It is well-known that the levels of both inequality and unemployment in South Africa are amongst the highest in the world. While some relationship between inequality and unemployment would be expected, it is unclear a priori quite how these affect each other, and how this relationship has changed over time.
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    Challenges of inclusive cities: making urban spaces and places for all

    Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies, South Africa, 2008
    This paper looks at the duality of urban contexts in South Africa that is of unprecedented opulence on the one hand and remarkable deprivation on the other.
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    Development of the urban development component for a second economy strategy: overview analysis

    Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies, South Africa, 2008
    Both in research and in practice there have been many ideas and interventions aimed at restructuring cities. In South Africa various programmes have been implemented to combat apartheid city form and address the needs of the urban poor. Amongst these the big projects and flagship programmes have had considerable success.
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    Employment intermediation for unskilled and low-skilled work seekers - part 1: overview of the Sector

    Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies, South Africa, 2008
    Unemployment is one of the biggest challenges facing South Africa. Growth has been inadequate, the skills level requirement of new jobs is continually rising, current skills among the workforce are low and inadequate numbers of low end, unskilled jobs are being created.
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    Missing the trget: business development support to the second economy

    Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies, South Africa, 2008
    The second economy refers to the people who are in a marginalised relationship to the mainstream economy. There is a complex but interrelated link between the second and the first economy which needs to be understood.
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    Income and non-income inequality in post-apartheid South Africa: what are the drivers and possible policy interventions?

    Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies, South Africa, 2009
    In South Africa, people with access to wealth experience the country as a developed modern economy, while the poorest still struggle to access even the most basic services.
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    Swaziland: effective delivery of public education services - discussion paper

    Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa, 2013
    Since independence in 1968, Swaziland has grappled with the same challenges in delivering effective education services, including, but not limited to: education access; increasing failure and dropout rates; a lack of qualified teachers; a lack of curriculum innovation; and slow responses to education and training changes in regional and international arenas.
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    India 2050: can we celebrate the centenary of the republic as a developed country?

    Research and Information System for Developing Countries, 2012
    Today, there is a great disparity of incomes between developed and developing countries perhaps partly as a legacy of the colonial period. According to the World Bank figures, in 2009, per capita income of developing countries in terms of dollars adjusted for purchasing power parity (in 2005 prices) was about $5000, only 15 per cent of that of the developed countries.
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    2015 and beyond: Action for a just, gender-equitable and sustainable future

    CARE International, 2014
    This briefing paper argues that gender inequality is one of the most widespread and persistent barriers to social justice and that climate change amplifies the risks faced by people who are already poor and marginalised, with widespread negative consequences primarily for women and girls, and for society as a whole.

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